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History professor honored for medieval studies

Posted June 7, 2000; 09:41 a.m.

by mmarks

William Chester Jordan, a Princeton University professor of history, has received the Charles Homer Haskins medal from the Medieval Academy of America.

The medal is awarded annually for an outstanding book in the field of medieval studies. Jordan was honored for his book,
The great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century
(Princeton University Press).